This Age
*200 copies limited edition* Trouble vs Glue is a duo: as the name says, we can picture one of 'em as the Trouble and the other as the Glue, in a never ending fight made of synths, guitar, drums and wicked voices. After their debut album on the german label Urquinaona ("Zum Teufel" LP) and a song on the (in)famous Borgata Boredom - Music And Noises From Roma Est - LP, they released their second album "Die Trauerweide" (eng. weeping willow) in June 2013 on NO=FI Recordings. After a 2 years hiatus…
Moonkeeper Reckoning
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Sequel to Moonkeeper Exodus, also by Monochrome Echo (aka Simon Little) and the third and final part of his sci-fi inspired space synth trilogy.
Moonkeeping Reckoning: Colonising the solar system. One step closer to exploring the known universe and life's great mystery: are we alone? What was meant to be mankind's greatest achievement has turned into its greatest nightmare. Because we are most certainly not alone. Having awoken an ancient forc…
Murdercoaster
*220 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* What to write about an album called Murdercoaster...? After several years of far too much serious stuff going on, I figured it was time to have a bit of fun again! This album draws on all the very worst of home video entertainment as an influence (previous listeners will be shocked by this revelation). I'm talking about the kind of trashy fun that required all the cheap latex, slime and screaming teenagers available to make the thinly draped p…
Hacker
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* This album and its concept was inspired by Kevin Mitnick’s book, A Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures As The World’s Most Wanted Hacker. Hackerexists in a largely forgotten world; the pre-Internet, pre-Windows era of the 1980s, when you had to use dial up modems to access another system and hacking was less about code and more about using social engineering to con people into giving you the information you needed.
Against The Dark Trees Beyond
They were interesting times, the early eighties. Against a backdrop of cold war and economic crises, the DIY attitude of the earlier punk movement had spawned near countless new genres where artists and bands broke the three-chord guitar mould and experimented with new content matter, singular song structures and – in many cases – new instruments. Synthesizers became affordable and were no longer the sole privilege of rock millionaires. All around the globe, musical creativity boomed as never be…
Music From The Withered Orange Tree
Originally released in the mid 80's on UK cassette label Bite Back!, this nearly lost gem finds new life 30 years later on Cocktail D'Amore Music. Steve has cobbled together a superbly melancholic electronic concept album. Wistful melodies often evoke sentiments of a lost childhood and hazy English mornings. Each song within remains untitled allowing full perceptive freedom as to what they all communicate, a language for the feelings that have no name. Untitled A1 - A6 leads one along intimate s…
Il Trionfo Della Morte
Italian, French-speaking and blessed with a Belgian accent Christophe Clébard brings a coherence that prevails both for his person and for his music: a wobbly mound, which sometimes resembles a series of explosions, sometimes a pile of layers cut by a flood of words from which parts can be distinguished. Relying on the amplified intonation of a saturated microphone, a pounding rhythm box and a synthesizer, his performances absorb the hearing to spit it out in a universe where nothing has any mea…
Districts, Roads, Open Space
“With my return to Warrington and Runcorn”, says Gordon Chapman-Fox, “The music began to reflect the social isolation of New Towns life. This was mirrored by its creation through two years of pandemic lockdown.“The music is perhaps the loneliest and most spacious I have created so far - the Open Spaces in the album title taking on multiple interpretations. The focus and feel of the album is not inspired by the architecture of new towns, but the lives lived in them. I think the precise planning n…
People & Industry
Tip! ** CD version, includes two bonus tracks ** Gordon Chapman-Fox returns to Castles in Space with a second volume of stately electronica from his Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan project.“The album picks up where the first left off, really. Musically", explains Gordon. "People & Industry" was recorded back to back with "Interim Report, March 1979". There is a progression in the sound, but it's definitely cut from the same cloth as the first album. It still very much exists in this…
Discs Of Death
Tip! * in process of stocking * Discs Of Death is a 4xCD collection of all new Teeth Of Glass material. A triple feature of death & doom capped off with an imagined score to a wild post-apocalyptic video adventure. The 4 CD's are: 1. They Like To Kill (48:56) 2. Hippie Witch Killers (43:31) 3. Monster Of Florence (45:54) 4. 2031: Colorado Frontier Rangers (41:12) They Like To Kill is about the concentration of serial killers located in the Los Angeles area in the 70's / 80's. Hippie Witch Killer…
Νεκροαστικα
*Limited Edition of 120 copies* A hallucinated vampire woman wanders in an ill-famed square in the city, in a basement, a mad shaman tries to revive a man with macabre botany experiments, gangs of chaos-worshiping thugs challenge each other with machetes in the city center, a teenage party turns into a bloody orgy, a clandestine radio station transmits sound frequencies that drive people crazy ... these and many other oddities you will find in the mysterious cult-movie entitled "Nekroastika", sh…
At The Borders Of Orion
It’s a great pleasure for us to introduce an Italian cosmic courier named Robert Kaylos. Robert lives in Verona, northern Italy, but his true home is deep space: certainly the intergalactic space that hides the mysteries of life and death, but also the infinite and equally mysterious space of human interiority (Ballard's “Inner space”).Tangerine Dream wrote in the liner notes of their album "Alpha Centaury" (1971): "Dedicated to all people who feel obliged to space". We are sure that Robert feel…
Байконур
In 1955, the Soviet Union completed the first spacecraft launch site in history: the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Still active today, the cosmodrome is located in Kazakhstan, about thirty kilometers from the city with the same name (until 1995 called Leninsk). The cosmodrome was the scene of grandiose events in Soviet history, such as the launch of the first sputnik (1957), but also of dramatic events such as the Nedelin catastrophe (1960), in which 78 people died due to an explosion.Baikonur was the co…
Twister
*In process of stocking.* Goth ASMR hardcore flex from Opal X, alias of Astrud Steehouder (Nonexistent, Paper Dollhouse) exploring a sort of dank hypnagogic sound mulched from zonked electronics, gynoid vox and graveyard atmospheres - one for fans of Christoph De Babalon or Ectoplasm Girls
Chasing up 2020’s ’Something like the sun fell’ tape as Process XXI Opal, Steehouder veils herself under the Opal X aegis for a particularly maudlin session that repeats on both sides, all primed for looping t…
Issue 93: Blancmange
*In process of stocking* We're delighted to have Blancmange main man Neil Arthur on the cover of the latest issue of Electronic Sound – and a special dot-to-dot image of him, no less. We have a limited edition pink vinyl seven-inch to accompany the magazine too, with the awesome 'Living On The Ceiling' on the A-side.
Blancmange were one of the coolest synthpop outfits of the early 1980s and it was quite a surprise when Neil Arthur and his original partner Stephen Luscombe called it a day in 1986…
Síntomas de Techno : Ondas Electrónicas Subterráneas Desde Perú (1985-1991)
** Limited Edition 300 Copies ** Síntomas De Techno presents for the first time various underground techno groups and projects that emerged in Lima in the mid-1980s. Projects such as Disidentes, Paisaje Electrónico, T de Cobre, Meine Katze Und Ich, El Sueño de Alí, Cuerpos del Deseo, Círculo Interior, Ensamble, and Reacción were responsible for introducing styles such as techno pop, EBM, industrial, and minimal synth in Peru. Coinciding with the explosion of punk in Lima and the appearance of th…
The Thetford Beast
Motoring up to Norwich from London, it would be difficult to miss Thetford Forest, the vast wooded wilderness that follows a large section of the A11. Planted between the world wars to ensure a plentiful timber stock, today it's a managed park attracting picnickers and hikers. But there's another side to this wood that most day trippers would probably be unaware of...
Concretism's Chris Sharp can often be found walking in Norfolk's Thetford Forest as he has family over that way. It was on one su…
Sleep Deep
*In process of stocking.* Next Festival Records presents Sleep Deep by Palmovka, recorded live at Next Festival in Bratislava. Palmovka is a project by Lucia Udvardyová who hails from the Slovakian-Hungarian borderlands. She makes improvised electronics using field recordings and custom-made hardware.
Night Skies
*220 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* 'Soundtrack for an abandoned sequel to sci fi classic 'Close Encounters': 'Night Skies' is the title of an unfilmed semi-sequel to 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. The story goes that after the success of Close Encounters, its director Steven Spielberg was under pressure to create a sequel that he didn't particularly want to make. But the project got as far as a script, originally titled 'Watch The Skies' and later renamed 'Night Skies', …
I Morti Possono Aspettare
*120 copies limited edition* Between the '60s and the '80s the production of pulp magazines in Italy was flourishing and incredibly varied: every month hundreds of paperbacks containing strange, adventurous or more often terrifying stories came out on the newsstands. Among the most popular italian pulp magazines was the horror series "I Racconti di Dracula" (Tales of Dracula) published by Baron Cantarella: each issue of "I Racconti di Dracula" contained a grim and disturbing story, inspired by I…